Renaissance Flashcards
Boccaccio
The Decameron.
Chaucer
Canterbury Tales.
Dante
Father of modern Italian.
Machiavelli
Where the end justifies the means.
The Prince.
Rabelais
Gar Pen.
Satirized education politics and philosophy.
Montaigne
Skepticism.
Cervantes
Ridiculed feudal society. DQ.
Shakespeare
The greatest poet of all time
Milton
“Paradise Lost”
Moliere
“The Misanthrope”
Giotto
Frescoes
Donatello
Carved busts
Da Vinci
Renaissance man
Michelangelo
Renaissance genius
Titian
Used vivid colors.
Palestrina
Composer of church music
El Greco
Greek who settled in Spain. Painted religious scenes and church officials
Valasquez
Painter to King Philip
Hals
Painted portraits of ordinary peoples and everyday life
Rembrandt
Greatest painter Northern Renaissance
Rubens
Used brilliant colors. Depicted action.
Durer
Wood and metal
Holbein
Painter for Henry. Life like portraits of famous people
Copernicus
Rediscovers the heliocentric theory.
Vesalius
Anatomy
Bacon
Observation and experimentation
Galileo
Improved the telescope
Harvey
Blood circulated through the body
Middle Ages
Faith.
Authority.
Tradition.
Life is only a preparation for the here after. Preoccupation with religion and church
Renaissance
Reason Question authority Free inquiry Stressed individual Approved of worldly pleasure Life itself is worthwhile Paid attention to matters of secular society
Descartes
Optics
Analytical geometry
Leeuwenhoek
Perfected the microscope
Newton
Law of motion and gravitation. Invented calculus.
